Monday, November 26, 2012

Coming to the Shalin Liu...

Cyrus Chestnut Trio

Sunday, December 9, 5 PM

Get
in the holiday spirit with internationally renowned pianist Cyrus
Chestnut's hard swinging, soulful sounds! Hear classics from his album A Charlie Brown Christmas, along with other tunes that make him "the best jazz pianist of his generation" (Time magazine).
A staple in the jazz community, Chestnut blends styles that are
unabashedly rooted in Gospel and touches on blues-inflected harmonies
and tones of Jelly Roll Morton's ragtime and early jazz.

"The pianist Cyrus Chestnut is one of jazz's most convincing anachronisms...

What makes his music fly is a complete security in his style, and that sense